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SAGES 2007 Meeting Leaders

Program Chair: Steve Schwaitzberg, MD

Colon HO Course Chair: Peter Marcello, MD
Colon HO Course Co-Chair: Tonia Young-Fadok, MD

SAGES Masters CBD HO Course Chair: James “Butch” Rosser, MD
CBD HO Course Co-Chair: Richard Vazquez, MD

Endolumenal & Transgastric HO Course Chair: William Richards, MD
Endolumenal & Transgastric HO Course Co-Chair: Leena Khaitan, MD

Simulator HO Course SAGES Chair: Randy Haluck, MD
Simulator HO Course ACS Chair: Lenworth Jacobs, MD

Surgeon in the Digital Age HO Course Chair: Daniel Herron, MD
Surgeon in the Digital Age HO Course Co-Chair: Patrick Reardon, MD

MIS & Cancer PG Course Chair: Steven Brower, MD
MIS & Cancer PG Course Co-Chair: Nancy Baxter, MD

FLS PG Course Chair: Nathaniel Soper, MD
FLS PG Course Co-Chairs: Lee Swanstrom, MD & Gerald Fried, MD

IBD PG Course Chair: Barry Salky, MD

Allied Health Course Chair: Leena Khaitan, MD
Allied Health Course Co-Chair: Nancy Hogle, RN

“Rocky Horror” Complications Video Chair: Jo Buyske, MD

Poster Chair: Daniel Scott, MD
Poster Co-Chair: Michael Marohn, MD

Video Chair: Raul Rosenthal, MD
Video Co-Chair: Aurora Pryor, MD

Learning Center Chair: Gretchen Purcell, MD, PhD
Learning Center Co-Chair: Benjamin Schneider, MD

Educators’ Lunch Coordinator: John Mellinger, MD

Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) Lunch Coordinator: Theodore Saclarides, MD

Emerging Technology Forum Coordinator: Daniel Herron, MD

Fellowship Council Lunch Coordinators: W. Scott Melvin, MD & Bruce Schirmer, MD

Resident and Fellows Scientific Session Coordinators: Benjamin Poulose, MD & Simon Bergman, MD

Panel Chairs

Reoperative MIS Surgery Panel Chair: Fredrick Brody, MD, MBA

SAGES/SLS Approaches to Solid Organ Resection Panel Chair: Gerald Fried, MD

SAGES & Rural Surgery Panel Chair: Thomas Broughan, MD

SAGES/IPEG Bringing Advanced Pediatric MIS To Your Hospital Panel Chairs: Steven Rothenberg, MD & Mark Wulkan, MD

SAGES/IPEG Pediatric Mystery Cases Panel Chairs: Marc Levitt, MD & Carroll “Mac” Harmon, MD

SAGES/ASBS Reoperative Bariatric Surgery Panel Chairs: Ninh Nguyen, MD & Michel Gagner, MD

SAGES/AHS Hernia Debates Panel Chairs: L. Michael Brunt, MD & Michael Kavic, MD

Endolumenal Panel Chairs: Brian Dunkin, MD & Gary Vitale, MD

SAGES/AHPBA Hepatic Tumor Ablation Panel Chair: David Iannitti, MD

Safety in Bariatric Surgery Panel Chair: Daniel Jones, MD

SAGES/ASGE NOTES Panel: Jeffrey Marks, MD

Bariatric Emergencies for Non-Bariatric Surgeons Panel Chair: Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD

AHPBA/SAGES Evaluation of Pancreatic Neoplasms Panel Chair: Sherry Wren, MD

SAGES/ASCRS Laparoscopic Colon Surgery Panel Chair: John Marks, MD

Payment for Innovative Therapies Panel Chair: Lee Swanstrom, MD

Innovative Therapies You Will Use in the Future Panel Chair: Adrian Park, MD

Evidence Based Medicine/SAGES Guidelines Panel Chair: David Earle, MD

Report from SAGES/MIRA Robotics Consensus Conference Panel Chairs: Michael Marohn, MD & Piero Giulianotti, MD

Real Cases from SAGES Members Panel Chair: Michael Holzman, MD

Legislative Panel Chair: Paresh Shah, MD

Career Development Seminar Chair: Blair Jobe, MD

SAGES/ACS Foregut Symposium Chairs: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD & David Feliciano, MD

SAGES Board of Governors

Executive Committee

President: Steven D. Wexner, MD
President-Elect: Steve Eubanks, MD
1st Vice President: C. Daniel Smith, MD
2nd Vice President: Jo Buyske, MD, ABS Representative
Secretary: W. Scott Melvin, MD
Treasurer: Mark A. Talamini, MD
Immediate Past President: *Daniel J. Deziel, MD

Members of the Board

Horacio J. Asbun, MD
L. Michael Brunt, MD
Mark P. Callery, MD
*John A. Coller, MD, AMA HOD Representative
Brian J. Dunkin, MD
Dennis L. Fowler, MD
Gerald M. Fried, MD
B. Todd Heniford, MD
Daniel M. Herron, MD
Michael D. Holzman, MD
Karen D. Horvath, MD
Daniel Bougere Jones, MD
Namir Katkhouda, MD
*Bruce V. MacFadyen Jr, MD
Jeffrey M. Marks, MD
Adrian E. Park, MD
*David W. Rattner, MD
William O. Richards, MD
Steven S. Rothenberg, MD
Philip R. Schauer, MD
Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD
Paresh C. Shah, MD
*Nathaniel J. Soper, MD
*Greg V. Stiegmann, MD, ACS Representative
*Lee L. Swanstrom, MD
*L. William Traverso, MD
Tonia M. Young-Fadok, MD

* Past President